Local

SILVER SPRING – Five years behind schedule and about $50 million over budget, the Paul Sarbanes Transit Center at the Silver Spring metro station finally seems to be on track.

This week crews are preparing the surface of the transit center for the final step of remediation, the latex-modified concrete (LMC) overlay for the middle tier of the structure, according to Department of General Services (DGS) Director David Dise.

ROCKVILLE – A local man faces 200 years in prison and the mother of one of five known sexual assault victims of a Gaithersburg man testified at his sentencing hearing for “no leniency” Friday morning.

The sentencing comes after a jury last month found Joey Poindexter, 40, also known as the “beer pong rapist,” guilty of eight counts of sexual assault on young men between the ages of 18 and 21 he met playing beer pong and later assaulted.

ROCKVILLE – In her proposed $112.3 million budget, City Manager Barbara Matthews has focused on infrastructure but one of the most important pieces for staff – the final implementation of the compensation and classification study – is still to come.

ROCKVILLE – If Tuesday’s safety briefing by Metro officials to the county’s joint transportation and safety committees had been a school examination, then county council members say Metro managers failed.

Six of seven city councilmembers endorsed the Neighborhood Development Company (NDC) Monday as the clear choice to build a mixed-use development on 1.2 acres of city-owned land at the intersection of Ethan Allen, Carroll and Grant avenues.